Günther
2020 · 4m · España
Directed by Nacho Herrera
Genres: documentary, historical, war
Tones: contemplative, dark
For Adolf Hitler, war was 'the best moment to eliminate the incurably sick'. People with physical and mental disabilities were seen as 'useless' to society, a threat to Aryan genetic purity and, ultimately, undeserving of life — persecuted to be murdered under what the Nazis called the 'T-4' programme.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects a Holocaust doc to genuflect, so Herrera's refusal to look away—turning the T-4 programme into something that demands *rigor* rather than pity—is genuinely unsettling in ways most consensus picks wouldn't dare.
Günther sits squarely in the lineage of post-war European documentary confrontation, where formal restraint and historical specificity become moral imperatives; four minutes that know exactly what weight they're carrying and refuse to sentimentalize it.
The choice to center a single biographical thread through systematic horror—letting one life anchor four minutes rather than abstract statistics—is what makes the difficult subject matter land as something witnessed rather than lectured.